The animated image : Roman theory on naturalism, vividness and divine power

1. Verfasser: Bussels, Stijn.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Berlin : Akademie Verlag, 2012.
Umfang/Format: 222 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Reihe Kunst und Wirkmacht
Studien aus dem Warburg-Haus ; Bd. 11.
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Inhalte/Bestandteile: 1 Datensätze
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Naturalism and animation. Pliny's anecdotes on art
  • Enargeia as epistemological requirement and rhetorical virtue. Quintilian on vividness
  • Creation and impact of art, literature and speech. Callistratus' On the Statue of a Bacchante
  • Life and animation in dance, theatre and spectacle. Lucian's The Dance
  • Cult status at the boundaries of humanity. Plutarch on supernatural animation
  • Epilogue. Erotic reactions to Praxiteles' Cnidian Aphrodite